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Yasuo Matsuda

Yasuo Matsuda

Rakuten Wallet Co., Ltd. senior analyst
He majored in international monetary systems at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. He worked in foreign exchange and bond sales and trading at Mitsubishi UFJ Bank and Deutsche Bank Group. Since 2018, he has been analyzing and forecasting the cryptocurrency market at a cryptocurrency exchange, predicting that it will peak at 8 million yen in 2021 and 5 million yen at the end of the year, which was almost accurate. He has been in his current position since January 2022.
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